Peter Sobot

• Engineered and developed backend services for music recommendation and personalization

• Provided technical direction, design input, mentorship and engineering work to Incident Management team
• Authored and deployed code contributions to 34 projects in 10 languages (primarily Ruby, Javascript, and Swift)
• Won 9 of 12 monthly engineering hack days in 2016 with projects including:
  • #oncallselfie, native Twitter integration for PagerDuty's iOS and Android apps
  • Rich HTML Email support for hundreds of thousands of PagerDuty users
  • Internal real-time display of outgoing pages with Go, Kafka, WebSockets & WebGL
  • PagerDuty's watchOS app for displaying on-call status and scheduling on your wrist
  • Versioning and undo for PagerDuty's on-call scheduling service
• Fastest progression from entry-level to senior engineer in company history (21 months)

• Core contributor for product improvements on Workflow and Incident Management: Systems teams
• Spearheaded efforts to reduce ZooKeeper lock contention, increasing overall throughput by multiple orders of magnitude and enabling future customer growth
• Mentored and onboarded 2 interns and 3 new full-time employees

• Helped ship core product enhancements including Incident Snooze and Incident Urgencies
• Ensured reliability and uptime of PagerDuty by participating in primary on-call rotations
• Interviewed dozens of engineering and UX candidates for full-time and intern positions
• Sang in BarberDuty, PagerDuty's on-call barbershop quartet that wakes you up at night

• Directed TWG Labs, a company division focused on experiments, learning and tools
• Managed between 1-4 developers on internet-of-things projects (Raspberry Pi, iBeacons, NodeJS and Heroku)
• Built bleeding-edge product prototypes for national Canadian brands including Tim Hortons

• Crafted viral music apps for the web, Android and iOS:
• the Wub Machine, an automatic music remixer used to make nearly 3 million remixes
• forever.fm, an endless, automatic & beatmatched radio station
• Created architecture to scale to 60k unique users per month with minimal cost while in school

• Wrote and maintained infrastructure software to manage Inkling's AWS-based cloud
• Participated in first-line on-call rotation with PagerDuty to keep services running 24/7

• Built MixBox, an iPad music remixing app based on the Echo Nest's Remix API
• Resident of VeloCity Startup Incubator (2010-2014)
• Created JoosBox, a compiler for a large subset of Java in Scala (Winter 2014, team of 3)
  
• "Colour of the Web," finding the average colour of the internet (Fall 2010, group of 2)